From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 5 05:03:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA03256 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 05:03:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA03242 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 05:03:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id PAA09986; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:03:45 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:03:45 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: Wes Peters cc: Al Johnson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'uname -m' not alpha? (was Re: 'uname -m' not i586?) In-Reply-To: <199709040827.CAA14451@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > Al Johnson writes: > > My system replies with "alpha" as opposed to the suggested "axp" > > Looks like the mimicing is already taking place. > > Cool. I guess the corporate decision on the 'axp' moniker didn't make > it all the way to the Digital UNIX group. They're in another state from > HQ, and those messages sometimes get mangled crossing from Taxachussetts > into Cow Hampshire. ;^) According to the VMS FAQ, the AXP name was officially abandoned (and even newer versions of OpenVMS are called Alpha/OpenVMS, and not OpenVMS/AXP). They simply came up with the AlphaGeneration (tm) logo, that they could trademark... > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com > Nadav